“Youngjae… Youngjae… We need to go… Yongguk is here… Youngjae…”

“Just let him sleep… I’ll help you carry him down to the car…”

Youngjae was vaguely aware of his arms being pulled around someone’s shoulders before he was lifted up and out of his seat. He couldn’t seem to find the energy to protest though as his weight was shifted and whoever was carrying him moved forward. Trying to gather what small amount of energy he could muster to fight off the overwhelming sleepiness, Youngjae opened his eyes ever so slowly, unable to even lift his cheek up from the back of Yongguk’s shoulder blade. He barely took in the sight of the empty hallway of the hospital before his eyes were closing once more.

“We’re almost there, Youngjae… aish… why are you so tired?”

Youngjae forced his eyes open again, the blurry sight from where his head was rested against the car window replacing the previous image of the hospital hallway. A soft sigh slipped past his lips as he closed his eyes again.

“Youngjae… I need you to work with me… You can’t sleep in your jeans…”

This time, Youngjae didn’t bother to try to force his eyes open. He could just barely feel the soft bedding beneath his body as Daehyun’s hands tugged at his clothing, trying to get him stripped down so that he would be comfortable while he slept.

Youngjae hummed softly as Daehyun rolled him to the side of the bed.

“C’mon Youngjae… roll over… I don’t want to sleep on the edge…”

Youngjae allowed the pillowy softness of his bed to him back into the depths of sleep as warmth surrounded him, the slow beat of Daehyun’s heart lulling him into the land of dreaming.

Slowly, Youngjae’s eyes finally opened without the insane weight trying to pull him under again. He blinked several times, taking in the sight of the blank walls of his room as he tried to piece together how he had gotten home. The last thing he remembered was leaning back in his chair at Himchan’s bedside with the intention to take a small nap.

Youngjae took a deep breath, blinking back the morning sleepiness as he took in his surroundings. He knew he had fallen asleep in Daehyun’s arms once more, as the incredible warmth surrounded him still. He brought his hand up to his eyes, rubbing away at his eyes as he shifted a little to try to get his body into motion.

However, Daehyun grunted a bit at the movement, his arm coming up to wrap around Youngjae’s shoulders to hold him in place.

Youngjae couldn’t help but smile at the others sleeping habits as he was pulled farther into Daehyun’s chest, the soft thump of the others heart on his cheek as he closed his eyes to take in the moment. He eased his arm off of Daehyun’s chest to wrap it around his waist instead.

“Good morning, Youngjae…”

Youngjae cracked open his eyes, “You’re awake?” he asked softly, his voice half muffled from Daehyun’s shirt.

“Mhmm… I’ve been awake for a while… You were just sleeping really well, so I didn’t want to move you.”

Youngjae laughed a little, “You should have just pushed me off of you, I would have went back to sleep.” He said, trying to lift himself off of Daehyun’s chest. The elder, however, kept his arm around Youngjae.

“I still don’t want you to move…” Daehyun mumbled, opening his eyes to look down at Youngjae. He smiled a bit before kissing him on the top of his head, “Let’s just lay here for a bit… Jongup’s going to be at the hospital with us today, so we won’t get any time to us while we’re with Himchan…”

“But Jongup already knows about us… we don’t have to be secretive around him…”

Daehyun wrinkled his nose a bit, “But, I like our alone time… I don’t want to share it…” he said, his arms pulling just a bit tighter around Youngjae.

The younger smiled, nuzzling his cheek against Daehyun’s chest, “Fair enough, Dae. We can stay in bed for a bit longer.”

“Good, cause I wasn’t going to let you get up.”

Youngjae scoffed, “I will get up if I so choose to, Jung Daehyun.”

“Oh, really now, Yoo Youngjae. Then why aren’t you?”

“… because I don’t want to.”

Daehyun laughed, hugging Youngjae, “Youngjae babo…” He said, kissing the younger’s forehead again.

They stayed in bed for a little while longer, snuggling together and enjoying the shared warmth before Daehyun let out a regretful sigh and announced that they really needed showers before going back to the hospital.

Youngjae, despite his agreement with the statement, whined about it anyways. He didn’t want to leave the bed. After a few minutes of pouting, Youngjae sent Daehyun to shower first, watching as the elder got up and gathered some cloths to change into after the shower before slipping off to the bathroom.

He sighed as the bathroom door shut and he flopped over in the bed, kicking his legs out from under the covers in frustration. He briefly smothered the pillow over his face as he let out a groan of frustration as he could hear the water start up in the bathroom.

Youngjae rolled over, putting his back to the door as he held the pillow close to his chest and closed his eyes, trying to ignore the very dirty completely innocent thoughts he was having about joining Daehyun in the shower… for the purpose of saving water, obviously.

Sure, they had had that intimate moment the other morning, and they’d been sharing a bed for the past few nights, but he didn’t want to push it. He wasn’t exactly new to relationships, but… he really didn’t want to screw it up with Daehyun by moving too fast or being to forward.

So, despite his urges, Youngjae refrained himself from getting out of the bed, instead, he tucked himself farther into the covers, burying his face into Daehyun’s pillow as he kept his eyes closed.

He felt the edge of the bed sink down, and he instantly opened his eyes up, rolling his body halfway to look up at Daehyun.

“U...uhm… Y… you know… It’d probably, uh… save time, if we just……”

Youngjae tried to bite back the smile that was threatening to tug at his lips as he watched Daehyun stutter and blush, trying to get the words out. Daehyun looked as though he had literally been in the middle of undressing when he had decided to come out and get Youngjae, he was shirtless and Youngjae could clearly see the way the others pants hung loosely around his hips. However, in that moment, he couldn’t help but find Daehyun just purely adorable.

“Just to save time, obviously.” Youngjae said, peeling back the covers to climb out of bed as Daehyun grinned.

It would have probably taken less time had the two decided not to shower together, because, despite the vaguely dirty thoughts that still hid within their minds, the two ended up doing nothing but sharing innocent kisses and playing in the water by splashing each other. By the time the water started running cold, the two were rushing to actually wash up, laughing as they had to take turns under the icy torrent of water to rinse off the soap suds.

Both were shivering by the time they climbed out of the shower, wrapping up in their towels as they made to go change into dry, and more importantly, warm cloths.

Daehyun, however, stopped Youngjae, “Hold on! I want to pick out your outfit…” he said, securing his towel around his waist as he first went into his own room, causing Youngjae a lot of confusion before crossing through the bathroom to go into Youngjae’s room. He came back a few moments later, the small bundle of folded cloths in his arms as he handed it to Youngjae. “There…” he said, grinning as Youngjae rolled his eyes. He unfolded the clothes, drying off as quickly as he could as Daehyun went back into his own room to change. He pulled on the clothes that Daehyun had picked out for him. He smiled as he took in a deep breath of the knitted sweater Daehyun had given him. He could smell Daehyun’s cologne lingering on the soft fabric and it made him want to pull it tighter around himself.

Daehyun opened the door slowly, “Oh good, if fits you…” he said, a smile gracing his lips as he walked in a bit father. He had a soft grey, plain sweater on much like his own.

“Daehyun… I thought we were supposed to be more subtle…” he said, “They are matching…”

The elder pouted, “nah uh, see, yours has buttons on the side… see, different.”

Youngjae laughed a little, pushing at Daehyun’s shoulder, “C’mon, babo. Let’s finish getting ready…”

“Yah! Youngjae babo~” he said, ruffling his hands through Youngjae’s damp hair before pressing a quick kiss to his lips.

Youngjae was a bit saddened when their ‘alone time’ came to an end as they pulled up at the hospital and Daehyun parked the car. Before he could get out of the driver seat, Youngjae leaned over the center console and pressed a quick kiss to his lips, lingering as Daehyun kissed him back.

“mm, what was that one for, Jae?”

“Iunno…” Youngjae mumbled, resting his forehead against Daehyun’s, “Cause I can’t kiss you around Jongup…”

Daehyun giggled a little, rubbing the tip of his nose against Youngjae’s. “You’re too cute sometimes, you know that…” he said, “Lets go inside… Zelo and Yongguk hyung are probably ready to go home…”

“Mkay…” Youngjae unbuckled and climbed out of the van, meeting Daehyun around at the back. He bumped his hip against Daehyun’s, “And I’m not cute, I’m very manly, thank you.”

“Mhmm, if you say so, Jae.” Daehyun said as he wrapped his arm around Youngjae’s waist, making his way into the hospital. As soon as they were through the doors, Daehyun dropped his arm from around Youngjae. He smiled, looking down at his feet as Youngjae hooked their pinkies together in lue of holding his hand. 

They put just a bit more distance between each other, letting their hands fall to their sides as they approached the waiting room. Just as they had been the day before, Yongguk and Zelo were already there waiting for them.

“Hey, you two are a bit early…” Yongguk said with a smile.

Daehyun nodded, “Just wanted to give you and Zelo time to eat before getting some rest…” he said. “Is Jongup still with Himchan?”

“Yeah…” Zelo stood up, stretching his arms up and over his head, “Watch out for that one noona nurse… she has been watching for us in the halls quite a lot… she drug me and Gukkie hyung up to Haraboji’s room several times…”

“Not Jongup?”

“Well, he’s yet to leave Himchan’s bedside… JB has been working doubles and he is usually the only nurse to come in to check on Channie… but he announces loudly when he’s about to enter the room with someone else…”

“What does Jongup do?” Youngjae asked, wondering where exactly the younger could hide at.

“Oh… he hides under the bed…”

Youngjae raised an eyebrow, “And they don’t notice him under there?”

“Nope…” Yongguk smiled, his gums showing, “Alright, so are you guys okay here?”

Daehyun and Youngjae nodded as Daehyun passed the keys to Yongguk, “Yup, we’re all set… see you guys tonight okay?”

Yongguk nodded, patting Daehyun on the shoulder as he and Zelo made their way out.

The week seemed to drag on for the members of B.A.P as the schedule continued as it stood, the only constant being Jongup as he stayed with Himchan and worked with the elder on getting him to cut back on the pain medication with the help of JB. They each took their shifts keeping the nosey nurse at bay and visiting Eunseok to keep from raising any suspicion.

It was on the sixth day that Himchan had been in recovery that they began to make plans to get him out of the hospital and back to the warehouse. JB currently had Daehyun and Youngjae in a small unused office down the hall from Himchan’s room. “Okay, so, I’ve gathered up all of the things you’ll need to help him for post surgery treatment and his physical therapy in my car… All I need to do is help you set it all up—“

“I’m sure we could handle that part, JB, really you’ve been such a help already.”

JB raised his eyebrow at Daehyun, “I get it, you guys still haven’t told me everything and I understand that part, but I’m not going to risk you hurting Himchan anymore then he already is by setting up the PT equipment wrong. It’s bad enough I have to trust this babo over here to oversee it.”

“Yah, JB, need I remind you who helped you study for every single one of classes while we were in school? I even let you practice drawing blood on me.”

JB made a face, “You know that was only because P.O passed out at the first sight of the needle.” He shook his head, “But I digress. If you guys don’t want me to know where it is that you’re staying or whatever, I’ll close my eyes, but we have a very small window of opportunity here to get the equipment from my car to your place before my lunch break is over because we need to move Himchan tonight. Otherwise, he’s healed enough to be released and they’ll release him into the custody of the police because of him being filed under an unknown.”

Daehyun sighed heavily, rubbing his forehead, “Fine, fine. Okay… Me and Youngjae will go with you while the others stay here.”

JB nodded, “Alright, let’s go then…” He walked out of the office with Daehyun and Youngjae. “It’s not too far of a drive, is it? My lunch break really isn’t that long and there’s a good bit of equipment to set up and-what Youngjae.”

“Turn around now… Don’t look.” Youngjae said, pushing at Daehyun and JB, before walking away a bit so that focus would be taken off of them.

“Why is it that I always seem to find you and your realities down here?” The nosey nurse questioned as she drew closer to Youngjae, having spotted him on her own rounds. “Don’t tell me, you’re lost again?”

“Ah, not today… I met the nicest nurse yesterday and I was hoping to see her again so that I could get her number.” Youngjae lied smoothly.

“Well, this is a place of healing, not a dating site. I am going to have to ask you to return to your grandfathers room and leave our staff alone unless it is a medical emergency.” The nurse said, her hand light on Youngjae’s elbow as she led him to the elevators to go to Eunseok’s room.

Daehyun wrinkled his nose in annoyance as he watched the nurse all but drag Youngjae off. Luckily she seemed to busy taking him to Eunseok’s room to notice him standing there with JB.

“That was a close one… C’mon, while Youngjae has her distracted…” he said, tugging at Daehyun’s sleeve as he lead him to the back side of the hospital where the employees parked. “Uhm… unless you want to give me directions… I mean… you know how to drive right?” JB asked with sudden nervousness as he held out his car keys. His grip was a bit tight on them as Daehyun tried to take the keys.

“Aish, yes, I can drive, JB. What is with you guys and not trusting me?”

“What do you mean?” JB asked as he reluctantly went to the passenger side.

“Youngjae asked me the same thing.” Daehyun said as he got into the driver’s seat, trying to ignore the habit of readjusting the seat. “I’m a good driver.” He mumbled as he cranked the car, pouting as he noticed JB tightening his seatbelt just a bit more.

It was quite in the car for a while as Daehyun pulled out of the parking lot and onto the main road. He cleared his throat, trying to ignore the heavy, awkward silence. “U...uhm… H…how long have you and Youngjae knew each other?”

“What? Oh… a while, I guess.” JB said, glancing at Daehyun before focusing on the dashboard of his car. “Why do you ask?”

Daehyun shrugged as he checked his blind spot before merging into the next lane so that he could turn. “Iunno, It’s just… we really don’t know much about his past.”

“Oh…”

The silence weighed heavily around them for several moments, “Uhm… that was kinda… a hint you know?”

“Yeah, I got that part… it’s just… Look, Youngjae asked me not to talk about anything personal. No offence.”

Daehyun sighed, “Really?” He pursed his lips, “Nothing personal at all… Hell, he hasn’t even told us anything about his parents!”

JB laughed a little, “Yeah, if I were you guys, I wouldn’t hold my breath on that subject.”

“Why not?”

“Like, orphans probably knew more about their parents then Youngjae knows about his… Not implying that they are dead or anything, it’s just, they were always busy with work when we were younger, which is why he usually stayed with me or P.O…” JB trailed off before turning to Daehyun, “Yah! Don’t do that! I promised Youngjae, no more talking about that. He’ll tell you if he wants to.”

Daehyun sighed, “Okay, okay, that was unfair of me, I won’t do it again.” He said. “Youngjae’s mentioned P.O before… you know him too?”

“Yeah, we grew up together… Yah! What did I just tell you!”

Daehyun couldn’t help but smile, “I’m sorry! I’m just curious.” He said, pulling JB’s car up to the curb as he parked in front of the warehouse. He felt a bit of relief as JB looked out the window in a bit of confusion about where they were located at.

The nurse quickly shook it off however, as he reached over and turned off the car before taking the keys from the ignition. “Alright, we better get started.” He said, smiling a little as he got out of the car and went to the back to pop the trunk.

He and Daehyun spent the next 10 minutes taking all of the needed equipment from the back of JB’s car and lugging it into the warehouse. The last thing to come in was a single duffle bag that JB handled with a lot more care. “Okay, this part can seriously get me fired, worse, arrested, but… Himchan’s still going to be in a bit of pain, and we’ve gotten him down to a pretty low dosage of pain killers, but he’ll still need to take them. With the given that you guys wouldn’t want me popping it a couple times a day to give him medication, I’ve brought everything he’d need to last him two weeks, and Youngjae does know a bit about the medical field from helping me study, so, he can run an IV for Himchan if he needs to…” He said, placing the bag carefully next to the wall in the living room.

“So what did Youngjae study in collage?”

“I’m not falling for this again, Daehyun.” JB said as he eyed Daehyun. “Now c’mon, we need to finish up.” He smiled as Daehyun let out a heavy sigh at not being able to get anymore information out of JB about Youngjae.

Daehyun and JB made it back to the hospital with five minutes to spare before JB’s shift started again. He apologized several times to Daehyun as he rushed off the second they were through the doors, his mouth half full with the sandwich he was attempting to all but in hail before his lunch break ended. Daehyun waved him off before winding through the hallways and keeping an eye out for the nosey nurse as he made his own way to Himchan’s room.

He knocked on the door lightly before easing it open, “Don’t freak out, it’s just me!” He said quickly, noticing the way the three males around Himchan’s bed immediately jumped up to duck into any sort of hiding place they could find.

“You nearly gave me a heart attack, hyung!”

Daehyun smiled as he ruffled Zelo’s hair, “Sorry about that Zelo…” he said. “Hey, Channie hyung… how are you feeling…”

“Like I was shot.” Himchan mumbled, letting his head roll to the side so he could look up at Daehyun.

“Good to hear that…”

Himchan’s forehead creased, “What’s that supposed to mean?”

“That you’re not completely high anymore, hyung…” Daehyun said, patting Himchan’s leg reassuringly as he stood at the foot of his hyung’s bed.

Himchan rolled his eyes before looking around, “I thought Youngjae was coming back with you…” He said.

“Yeah, that nurse spotted him and drug him up to Haraboji’s room…” Daehyun said, “I’ll go get him—“

“You just got back, Daehyun. Stay here with Himchan, I’ll go get Youngjae.”

Daehyun sighed as Yongguk got up and pushed him down into the now vacant seat before leaving the room.  He smiled, however, as he turned his attention to Himchan, “Are you ready to go home, hyung?”

“Yeah… these bed sheets and I’m tired of the nurses speaking in some sort of stupid code around me… like… why the hell would I want peanut butter in some soup… Who in their right minds even mix those two?” he asked. Himchan only seemed to pout more as the three boys at his bedside began to laugh, “Yah! You three are in on this too! I know it!”

Daehyun knew it would be a while before Himchan was back to his 100%, but, it was nice to sit there with his hyung and dongsaengs and pretend like the past few weeks hadn’t happened and just laugh. It’d be better, he decided, when they got Himchan home and they were together as six again.

Sorry that this took so long, haha. I ment to do alot more, but... I reached almost 10 pages and really didn't want to make it to long. /sobs I hope you guys enjoy the bit of fluffy fluff as I move us closer to getting Himchan healed. Things are to calm for B.A.P, don't cha think? :3

Cuddles,
Lynn

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